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In 2026, Gellar will be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
BREAKING BEAR
Gellar will be Blair in TUBI's new adult animated series "Breaking Bear". The show will follow a dysfunctional family of bears who begin selling drugs to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave. According to Next Season TV, the bears "soon enlist other forest animals in a scheme that will pit them against oil companies, The Russian Mafia, local Hell's Angels and polar bears who hate anything that isn't white." Blair is the middle sister, and the brains of the family. No release date has been announced.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale
Creators: Lila and Nora Zuckerman
Showrunner: Monica Owusu-Breen
Director (pilot episode): Chloé Zhao
Expected air date: 2026
Main Characters
- NOVA - the slayer, an introverted high school student, played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong.
- GRACIE - the 'ringleader' for a group of church-going students, will be played by Sarah Bock, who is Miss Huang in ten episodes of "Severance"
- ABE - Nova's father, a photojournalist, will be played by Daniel di Tommasso, who stars as Frank in the Hallmark romance "Welcome to Mama's".
- MR. BURKE - the school librarian, is played by Jack Cutmore-Scott, (Freddie Crane in 20 episodes of "Frasier").
- CARSON will be played by Kingston Vernes, who is also LUCAS in Paul Shoulberg's horror thriller "So Cold the River". According to Deadline, Vernes will guest-star in the pilot, and is "envisioned as a major recurring character if the project goes to series".
- HUGO - a nerd with a wealthy family is played by Faly Rakotohavana, who is Finn in the Disney+ comedy "Unprisoned".
- LARKIN - a chronic do-gooder, is played by Ava Jean.
Characters in the first episode:
- MS. LADUCA -played by Merrin Dungey a New Sunnydale Academy counsellor.
- TAMI - played by Audrey Corsa (Samantha Powell in the HULU series "All Rise")
- COLE - played by Jensen Gering (the Aaron in the Netflix series "Erin and Aaron")
- KEIKO (Audrey Hsieh) and JESSICA (Audrey Grace Marshall) - members of Evangelical Christian group at the Academy.
- SHAZ - played by Winston Vengapally (Tarik in the Netflix series "Gangs of Oslo").
Jack Dunn of Variety reported that, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair Italia, Gellar said she hopes for a massive “Buffy” reunion in the reboot that could mean bringing back all the characters from the past, even if they perished in the original. "It will be lighter than the last few seasons of the original,” Dunn quoted Gellar as saying. “We will try to find a balance between new and old characters. My dream is to bring back everyone who has died, but space will have to be made for new stories as well.”
Ryan Kiera Armstrong is the new Slayer. Posting on Instagram, Gellar wrote: "I want to introduce you to @ryankarmstrong. From the moment I saw Ryan’s audition, I knew there was only one girl that I wanted by my side. To have that kind of emotional intelligence , and talent, at such a young age is truly a gift. The bonus is that her smile lights up even the darkest room. Welcome to #NewSunnydale #btvs" Mark Cassidy of Comic Book World earlier reported that in the sequel Sarah Michelle Gellar will be Sunnydale's resident vamp-hunter, but she will be taking on more of a mentor-type role. "The main focus of the new show will be a teen named Nova, who Buffy will take on as a trainee Slayer." The article describes Nova and six other characters in the new show. Nova's dad is one of them, but her mother is not.
According to Gellar's Instagram, the Buffy Reboot had its first table read on 21 July.
Ready or Not, Here I Come
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood will star in the sequel to the 2019 dark comedy "Ready or Not", and Samantha Weaving will reprise her role as Grace. Marco Vito Oddo, writing for Comicbook.com reports that “[The] movie picks up the second after the first movie ends. Grace wakes up in the hospital. No time has passed for her. The last thing she remembers is her in-laws exploded, including her new husband." Nestor Carbonell (Agent Victor Machado in RINGER) is also in the cast. The sequel has an expected release date of 10 April 2026.
Bad Summer People
According to Deadline, Gellar will star in and executive produce "Bad Summer People", a TV adaptation of Emma Rosenblum's novel of the same name. The book is set in the fictional town of Salcombe, Fire Island and its main character are Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker. A review by The Library Ladies summarized the novel's scenario:
"Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he’s the tennis pro -- or someone else’s husband."
Dexter: Original Sin
Gellar is forensics expert Tanya Martin on 'Dexter: Original Sin'. She told Emily Longarette of Variety: “We’re playing in the 90s. I’m used to playing these formidable women and she’s no exception, but she’s almost an even bigger exception because women didn’t run departments in those jobs. They certainly didn’t run the science departments, and they certainly didn’t do it in Miami. So you realize she’s gotta be pretty tough to be able to hang with the guys.”
Slideshow - Sarah Michelle Gellar in Dexter: Original Sin
Gellar described her characte Tanya to Nick Caruso of TV Line: “Inadvertently, Tanya is the one who teaches Dexter everything that he knows, to continue a trend that I love to do, which is playing these women in men’s worlds. And to have a woman lead a department in the Miami Metro Police Department in the ’90s was so rare.” After saying that the role is different from those she’s played in the past, Gellar continued: “She’s corporate. She is really breaking that glass ceiling that I really haven’t had the chance to mess with. She’ll start to open up a little bit about what that’s like and how hard that really is.”
DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN can be streamed on Paramount Plus with Showtime.
A Car Named Dexter
Jeff Conway of Forbes asked Gellar: "The term “Dexter” has become synonymous with blood over the years. So, in real life, are you squeamish towards blood yourself? I mean, on this new show, Sarah, you play what they call in the first episode, 'The Boss Lady of Forensics'.” Gellar replied: "I'm a mother, I mean - but wait, you know what's so funny when you said that? I just had a realization that I forgot until this very moment. When I got my first car - okay, when I graduated high school - I don't know why this like literally jumped into my head, do you know what I named my first car? My first car was named Dexter!" The first Dexter episode aired in 2006.
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly asked Gellar to name ten male TV characters she wished she could play. Dexter Morgan was number 8:
- Gunther, Friends
REASON: "I just love the story: There was this actor, James Michael Tyler, who was in the background and everyone liked him, and they kept him around." - Eric Cartman, South Park
REASON: "No one gets better lines on television than Cartman. Nobody." - Samantha Jones, Sex and the City
REASON: "She crosses all gender lines." - Hank Moody, Californication
REASON: "If I was a man, I'd want to make out with as many hot chicks as David Duchovny gets to make out with." - Thomas Sullivan Magnum, Magnum PI
REASON: "Just because it's Tom Selleck. I'd be anything Tom Selleck." - Sonny Crockett, Miami Vice
REASON: "I also wanted to have a pet alligator." - Ricky Stratton, Silver Spoons
REASON: "He used to ride that little train around his huge house. I wanted that train when I was a kid." - Dexter Morgan, Dexter
REASON: None. - J.R. Ewing, Dallas
REASON: None. - Alex P. Keaton, Family Ties
REASON: none
SMG has authored a cookbook (with Gia Russo) called Stirring Up Fun with Food: Over 115 Simple, Delicious Ways to Be Creative in the Kitchen. Organized by month, the book offers projects for every occasion and theme, including Valentine's Day, Shark Week, Halloween, and a Star Wars day.
Freddie Prinze Jr. co-wrote a cookbook with Rachel Wharton. Back to the Kitchen: 75 Delicious, Real Recipes (& True Stories) from a Food-Obsessed Actor : A Cookbook has a foreword by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and is available in hardcover and a kindle edition. Prinze told Zee Krstic of EATER: "The first dish I ever cooked on TV was a sea bass with sugar and lime with Rosie O’Donnell, of all people." Seventy-five of Prinze's family recipes are featured, along with the stories behind them.
SMG QUOTES
on Inspiration
"I get inspired every day, whether it's another actor or a person doing selfless work or the way my kids look at the world. I always remember when my kids were little, we'd be walking trying to get to school and they’d see a snail and stop and want to look at it and you're like, 'No, we have to go,' and then it’s like, 'No, stop. That's really cool.' It's those moments."
---- to Abby Bender of Yahoo Life
on Horror Films
"This is a genre where women really get great opportunities, and where also some of our most famous women seem to keep flocking to. The obvious is Naomi Watts in The Ring. But then you think about Halle Berry--after she won the Oscar, she made Gothika. Or Charlize Theron, her first choice after she won the Oscar was Aeon Flux. Or Gwyneth Paltrow's biggest success lately has been Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Why is that? That's because that's where women really get to flourish. I don't know why that is, I don't know why women superhero movies don't seem to do as well as women thrillers. Comedies just make more money when it's Adam Sandler than if it's a female. It's just the way the moviemaking business seems to go. But I don't know why."
---- to RadioFree.com
on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"With high school and college as a backdrop, we were able to address racism, identity, bullying, guilt, death, first love and heartbreak using the demons as metaphors for the demons we all experience. I am not sure how that translates into adulthood, although I am sure it could. The burden of saving the world a lot always weighed heavily on her, so for her sake, I hope she is somewhere on a beautiful beach located far away from any Hellmouth.”
---- to Brian Porreca of The Hollywood Reporter
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